Be excellent- e.g. Actor. The kind of actor that without him/her, the movie would not be the same. They make the movie. Of the top of my head, Johnny Depp. If you're excellent at one thing, you are not very good at anything else. This is your only talent.
Somewhat good- e.g School teams. You can make pretty much every school team but you'll never be the best one on the team or progress much further. But you're fairly good at anything you try, no matter what it is.
Why did you choose whatever it is you chose?
2007-01-02 08:32:21 · 20 answers · asked by Basiate 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Be Excellent:
"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
http://www.agiftofpoetry.net/Inspire/inspirational_quotes_and_sayings.htm
To BE EXCELLENT is to excel and be great. Those who excel in their craft enriches the lives of many, and are enriched by those they enrich. With their riches, they can employ those mediocre individuals who choose to not be excellent, who choose to be only "Somewhat Good".
2007-01-02 08:44:34 · answer #1 · answered by Q 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is true that if you are excellent in only one thing, and that one thing falls through, then you have nothing.
I would hate to not have any talents. I love being a people-person, and great at meeting new people. For example, in many jobs many talents are requied. However, I would love to be excellent at my passion. I am a law student. I would love to be an excellent lawyer. The type that graces the history books,that doesnt practice the law but writes it. I would love that but wouldnt want to sacrifice everything else.......
2007-01-02 10:40:58 · answer #2 · answered by here2helpu 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."
Archilochus
This is the popular quote related to this topic. I guess most people like to think of themselves as a fox but it's generally the hedgehogs that gain notoriety as , Pulitzer Prize winners, Gold Medalists, Nobel Prize winners, etc. This quote is also often described as a view of the system in addition to expertise.
I guess even considering that I'd still rather be a fox. When you're a hedgehog it can border on obsession and you don't have balance.
2007-01-02 09:04:00 · answer #3 · answered by Calico_Jack 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a musician. This is what I do well. I chose to focus on this one talent rather than attempt to be OK at many things.
Every area of study has many facets. Music has performing, teaching, study, theory, composition, directing, aesthetics, history, sociology and philosophy. Each facet touches the other. A fine musician would be aware of the dynamic relationship of the many facets that create, motivate and respond to music. Fine musicians do not just learn notes, but investigate compositional technique, complete analysis... etc...
To be exceptional in ONE THING takes much work.
It becomes unnecessary to have something to 'fall back on' because you have become muti-faceted like your area of study.
2007-01-02 15:56:15 · answer #4 · answered by jennifer w 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything I do requires my hands. From fixing my girlfriend's car to pouring a cocktail in my bar. All I know is manual labor. Put me in an office and I feel like a hamster in a maze. The only thing I want to do is get OUT. Anything happens to my arms, I'm screwed. I wish I listened in high school and got myself an education when I had the chance.
2007-01-02 13:59:46 · answer #5 · answered by no name brand canned beans 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excellent at one thing - it;'s likely i could make a career out of it...you're unlikely to get to the top of a career track being pretty good at lots of things
2007-01-02 08:38:52 · answer #6 · answered by pinkfudge27 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The latter rather than the former, its to do with team work. better to have tried and failed than to never try at all.i believe having multi skills enables you in life, having one suberb skill wont get you far if that talent is not required by the community or society in which you live. LF
2007-01-02 09:09:20 · answer #7 · answered by lefang 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ultimately, I would like to be good in most things. I find I enjoy competence and the feeling that I can do anything I try than to be limited to one thing, no matter how good I might be in that one thing.
2007-01-02 08:38:23 · answer #8 · answered by Sharon M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would rather be good at one thing, in this way: I play the piano, I want to be a pianist. I still go to college, in case any accident happens that makes me unable to continue playing.
2007-01-02 09:58:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
excellant in one thing and try to be good at other things.but unfortunately i'm neither this nor that.i'm so sad and ashamed.i used to be excellant in something,but somebody let me leave everything.and now i'm almost of no use:(i do nothing and i know nothing either.and i don't have time ,ability , chance or enough money to get back what i lost or be good at anything else,coz i have kids.(God bless them of course,they're my life)
2007-01-02 08:43:13 · answer #10 · answered by Queen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋